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and the greatest of his victories, is that he gets over himself. So beneficial is the duty of being habituated in vertue, that (as I said once before,) it makes the glorious Work of Grace become a kind of second Nature. For as the Love we bear to Christ begets the keeping of his Commandments, so does our keeping those Commandments as much improve and cherish in us our love of Christ. We shall not be able to abstain from the love of Christ, when there is something in ourselves to which the Nature of Christ himself, does hold conformity and agreement; and our keeping his Commandments will beget such a conformity. It will, I say, beget in us such an Harmonie with Him, as must needs infer in Him an equal Harmonie with us too. |
and the greatest of his victories, is that he gets over himself. So beneficial is the duty of being habituated in virtue, that (as I said once before,) it makes the glorious Work of Grace become a kind of second Nature. For as the Love we bear to christ begets the keeping of his commandments, so does our keeping those commandments as much improve and cherish in us our love of christ. We shall not be able to abstain from the love of christ, when there is something in ourselves to which the Nature of christ himself, does hold conformity and agreement; and our keeping his commandments will beget such a conformity. It will, I say, beget in us such an Harmony with Him, as must needs infer in Him an equal Harmony with us too. |
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